Specialist IP CCTV supplier and value-added distributor Controlware Communications Systems has won the award for Best Project at the IFSEC Security Industry Awards, having won the same award last year.
The IP CCTV network at St Pancras International was the Best Project for 2008. The awards were presented in the evening of Monday May 12, during the annual IFSEC opening night party held at the Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham.
The development of the IP CCTV network at St Pancras International was part of the stationโs refurbishment for the High Speed 1 (HS1), formally known as the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL). Controlware provided technical design, product supply, integration, commissioning and operator training services for a new 450 camera solution, working with the Costain, O’Rourke, Bachy and Emcor Rail (CORBER) consortium and Rail Link Engineering (RLE).
Included are Bosch cameras, IP codecs, networked storage and an advanced management platform. Based on IP technology St Pancras Internationalโs video can be monitored from multiple locations. This enables surveillance operations to become more resilient, according to the firm, allowing control and monitoring functions to be managed from other locations on the network in the event of an emergency or network failure. Management tools provide users with access to live and recorded video while at the same time the surveillance network is scalable to support growth of cameras and storage requirements in the future.
Commenting
On winning the IFSEC Best Project award for the second time Matt Caine, General Manager of Controlware said: "Controlware are very proud to have played a part in such a nationally important and prestigious project as the refurbishment of St Pancras International and are especially honoured to have our work valued so highly by our peers in the security industry. Winning the IFSEC award for the second year in a row is a great achievement for the UK team and represents a superb level of consistency."
